Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Cardiff slowly pushed at the door , widening the thin jet-black wedge . |
2 | I relished the moment during a rehearsal once when Mel Brooks suddenly boomed at the researcher , ‘ Judith — go to my dressing-room and put on that thing I bought you ! ’ |
3 | Scott merely glared at the DI . |
4 | Jorge suddenly appeared at the door and Maggie did not wait to hear any answer ; she walked out of the room , scooping up her bag and swinging it over her shoulder , quite satisfied that this time Felipe de Santis had come off worst . |
5 | She sometimes felt that were Scott not sitting at the studio news desk , face made up and hair sprayed , ready to roll and clearly in control — why , then the news might never happen . |
6 | Donna just stared at the box . |
7 | Ellen now worked at an adventure playground — the Christabel Focus — for underprivileged girls in an ethnically mixed section of the city . |
8 | Benstede and Corbett then sat at the edge of a table directly beneath the great dais just as a chorus of trumpets brayed . |
9 | Now the fact is , if you read Totem and Taboo , whatever you think , and how ever preposterous the idea may seem , what Freud actually says at the end of that book is not that , what Freud says is , there is an in innate , inborn sense of guilt about murdering near relatives like fathers and committing incest . |
10 | While I was waiting in the car ( I thought the men would only be a few moments ) , Alan suddenly appeared at the window . |
11 | FIRST TO FALL DEVON MALCOLM scatters the stumps of Ramiz Raja to give England early hope at the Oval . |
12 | Simon now lives at a nursing home in Hampshire … but after all they 've been through together , he 's spending time with his mum and dad . |
13 | It seems Spain has taken over from Italy as chief innovator on the modern scene : ‘ The 1990s will see Spain firmly positioned at the top of the international market , ’ declares Robert Smith . |
14 | but Vietnam joined Laos to torpedo Malaysia 's attempts to have the conference renew the endorsement of ZOPFAN previously made at the Algiers Summit Conference . |
15 | Trent hardly looked at the compass . |
16 | talking of rejects I was I was conned into going down to Stoke yesterday to look at the Portmeirion seconds shop . |
17 | Rore properly stands at the head of this roll-call , above all for his madrigals which are both artistically and historically more important than his generally rather conservative Masses and motets . |
18 | What survives , outside MGM 's archives , of the sequence in which Astaire and Charisse separately rehearse at the barre , is just a few black-and-white stills . |
19 | While the ebullient Tim chunders on about anything — switching from astute frontman to village idiot at the twist of a phrase — bassist Martin balefully stares at the floor looking ever more intense and occasionally thundering through a paragraph of bile . |
20 | While the ebullient Tim chunders on about anything — switching from astute frontman to village idiot at the twist of a phrase — bassist Martin balefully stares at the floor looking ever more intense and occasionally thundering through a paragraph of bile . |
21 | Chairman Garry Gibson yesterday laughed at the prospect not merely of promotion , but the possibility of passing the Magpies on the way . |
22 | WASHINGTON D.C. Originally seen at the Taft Museum , Cincinnati , the travelling exhibition ‘ Cavaliers and Cardinals : nineteenth-century French anecdotal paintings ’ can now be seen at the Corcoran Gallery until 8 November . |
23 | As she and Adam left , Buzz turned back to see Elinor silently looking at the ceiling . |
24 | They went into the boutique , Alyssia barely glancing at the racks of exquisitely made clothes , nodding distractedly in agreement when Nicole picked out an exotic pink strapless dress and asked whether she thought it would suit her . |
25 | Minton repeatedly jibed at the art business . |
26 | Mandeville viciously kicked at the snow with the toe of his boot . |
27 | Hills 's lease at Manton also terminates at the end of next year , and he could return to his original yard in Lambourn which he still owns and where his son John trains . |
28 | Lydia put a mug of tea in front of her master and then took herself off to the dairy , where she and Martha unashamedly listened at the door . |
29 | Intentionally or not he seems to suggest , as Lord Caithness also did at the Committee stage in the House of Commons , that the homosexual literature should pass the test of artistic and literary merit — characteristics which are necessary as a defence against a charge of obscenity under the Obscene Publications Act 1959 . |
30 | Kersey arrived on time and found Marks already seated at a table by the window with a pint in front of him . |